{"id":68280,"date":"2023-03-06T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=68280"},"modified":"2023-03-06T08:16:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:16:58","slug":"the-next-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2023\/03\/06\/the-next-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The next question?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday's question and poll<\/a> produced a quite surprising result in the sense that it delivered 14,984 reads on this site yesterday, which for a Sunday is quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Whist the weekday readership here tends to exceed 7,000 a day, at weekends the usual is about half that (partly because I usually post fewer items at the weekend, partly because I do not usually want to spend all day dealing with comments, as I seemed to yesterday). This weekend with a couple of polls that attracted attention total readership was 24,000, or about 17,000 more than I would usually expect.<\/p>\n

I have noted some people commenting on yesterday's poll suggesting that it was astonishing that I even posted the question that I did. They thought it politically naive of me to do so. They suggested that it was inept (mainly Labour supporters on Twitter) or inappropriate when the Green Party exists. But I sensed when it was suggested in response to Saturday's poll that it was a live and topical issue. I also sensed that those denying its relevance are the political problem and not its solution. I will post separately on that. The level of interest proved the sceptics wrong, I think.<\/p>\n

For now, first of all my thanks to all who voted and who be many who commented for the first time on the site: most contributions were very good.<\/p>\n

Second, it seems that this format works as a way to open up discussion. In that case please feel free to suggest further polls. This one was not written by me, and I am open to others proposing questions that they think might be worth asking. I make no promises that I will use them, or when, but I welcome suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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